DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 20 -- IN many media houses in developing countries, journalists face common challenges in accomplishing their duties: low salaries, lack of trainings, lack of working tools and working for too long without being employed.
Other challenges for journalists in both private and public media are lack of job promotion, difficult working environment and lack of job security or working without contract. Politicians have always promised to solve these problems but when it comes to implementation nothing is done.
Mr Yassin Omar and Ms Khadija Ali are among young journalists who have worked for five years in different media houses without employment. They complain of the same problems mentioned above, but their immediate bosses, ...